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By: Ilan Solomons3rd November 2017
Emerging miner Kropz’s Elandsfontein phosphate mine, near Saldanha Bay, in the Western Cape plans to supply the drought stricken West Coast region with additional clean water, while offsetting its own water-use over the course of the next three years. The project is located on land adjacent to... →

By: Henry Lazenby2nd November 2017
Following maiden gold sales of 910 oz of gold in June, Guyana Goldstrike has received further royalty payments underpinned by the sale of 618.2 oz of gold recovered by local small-scale alluvial, or artisanal, miners on the company’s Marudi gold project, as part of a corporate social... →

By: Martin Creamer1st November 2017
Anglo American Platinum has drawn applause for its role in the opening of a new pipe factory in job-short Limpopo, which is aimed at sustainably developing the community of Mokopane, where the mining company operates its rich Mogalawena opencast platinum mine. Anglo American Platinum partnered... →

27th October 2017
Coal miner Sasol Mining reported a 21% decline in its operating profit for the 2017 financial year, compared with the previous comparable period. The mining business unit of integrated chemicals and energy company Sasol, Sasol Mining’s profit dropped to R3.7-billion, mainly owing to the negative... →

27th October 2017
The Aggregate and Sand Producers Association of South Africa (Aspasa) says it has become a world leader in the proactive guidance and management of issues facing the surface mining industry, subsequent to gaining the recognition of its local and international stakeholders. Aspasa’s proactive... →

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LOOKING LOCAL
Aspasa advocates the recruitmet of workers living in close proximity to mining operations

By: Nica Schreuder27th October 2017
There is a new language to be learnt and a new mindset to be adopted in South Africa’s opencast mining industry, says diamond mining company De Beers’ Limpopo-based Venetia mine GM Benford Mokoatle. As many underground resources have been depleted in the region, mining companies have been forced... →

SOCIAL CAPITAL
Investing in communities and involving them in important discussions is crucial to sustainable mining operations

27th October 2017
In 2018, mining company Sasol Mining will have renewed focus on its business improvement programme to improve productivity and cost efficiency, states integrated chemicals and energy company Sasol in its Integrated Report, published June 30. Sasol notes that its mining business unit is... →

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PROGRESS PROJECTED
In the year ahead, Sasol Mining expects to further advance the second phase of its Impumelelo mine

By: Henry Lazenby26th October 2017
Africa-focused miner Randgold Resources said on Thursday that Mali was in many ways a model of its kind for Africa’s other mining countries, despite “some concern” that continued “upward revisions” to its mining code was diminishing its ability, relative to its peers, to attract investment.... →

By: Ilan Solomons25th October 2017
South African precious metals miner Pan African Resources has strongly condemned the protest action by some community members at the company’s Elikhulu tailings retreatment plant project, within the Evander gold mine complex, in Mpumalanga, warning that the unrest threatens to disrupt... →

By: Martin Creamer24th October 2017
A collective national vision, which must be viable, inclusive and transformative, is urgently needed to unleash mining’s latent ability to energise the entire South African economy, Chamber of Mines president Mxolisi Mgojo said on Tuesday. Speaking at a media lunch, Mgojo emphasised the folly of... →

By: Nadine James20th October 2017
Rustenburg-based miner LANXESS Chrome Mining – owned by German speciality chemicals company LANXESS – is investigating the viability of a tailings retreatment project, in addition to defining the resource of its existing opencast licence and that of its recently acquired land, thereafter... →

By: Ilan Solomons20th October 2017
The Chamber of Mines (CoM) hosted the launch of the Urban Agriculture Initiative, last week, which is aimed at creating a vibrant urban agricultural ecosystem by “innovatively” repurposing disused rooftops and making use of hydroponics and aquaponics to produce agricultural produce for... →

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URBAN AGRICULTURE
The Chamber of Mines is participating in and has funded a pilot project to assess the feasibility of growing herbs and vegetables on the rooftops

By: Mia Breytenbach20th October 2017
Amid low levels of capital project activities in South Africa, the $400-million Gamsberg zinc and lead project, in the Northern Cape, has become the largest mining project under execution in the country. “Commentators have noted that this significant investment in the South African mining... →

By: Henry Lazenby17th October 2017
Cyber risk has increased in prominence on professional services firm EY’s annual ‘Top 10 business risks facing mining and metals’ report, jumping to third position from ninth in 2016. According to EY's report, which was published on Tuesday, cyber risk is an ever-growing issue – an outcome of... →

By: Martin Creamer17th October 2017
The model launched last year by De Beers for the development of young historically disadvantaged South Africans (HDSAs) as diamond beneficiators is proving highly successful, De Beers Senior VP Sightholder Sales South Africa Mpumi Zikalala said on Tuesday. Speaking to Mining Weekly Online on the... →

By: Ilan Solomons13th October 2017
There are many ways for entrepreneurs to enter the mining industry, including as project developers, service providers and product suppliers – all of which hold great opportunities and challenges, states mining investment advisory company MX Mining Capital Advisors director Dr Mike Seeger. The... →

By: Ilan Solomons11th October 2017
The Chamber of Mines (CoM) on Wednesday hosted the launch of the Urban Agriculture Initiative, which is aimed at creating a vibrant urban agricultural ecosystem by “innovatively” repurposing disused rooftops and making use of hydroponics and aquaponics to produce agricultural produce for... →

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The Chamber of Mines is participating in and has funded a pilot project to assess the feasibility of growing herbs and vegetables on the rooftops

By: Martin Creamer11th October 2017
South Africans, who have been mining for metals for more than a century, were this week urged to farm for metals. South African-born Stephen Haggerty, a distinguished research professor of Florida International University in the US who spoke to Mining Weekly Online while in Johannesburg, outlined... →

Florida International University distinguished research professor Stephen E Haggerty talks to Mining Weekly Online’s Martin Creamer on the potential to farm for metals. Photographs: Duane Daws. Video and Video Editing: Lionel de Silva.

By: Ilan Solomons6th October 2017
When Ndlaleni Prudence Mkwanazi applied for tertiary education financial assistance from diamond company De Beers’ Voorspoed diamond mine, in Free State, earlier this year, little did she anticipate the great news she would receive. After all, the financial assistance programmes that she... →

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NDLALENI PRUDENCE MKWANAZI
A hard worker with big dreams to achieve in her life, Mkwanazi obtained ten distinctions during her first year of study in 2016

By: Mia Breytenbach6th October 2017
Diamond company De Beers has officially launched its second business incubator near its Venetia diamond mine operations in Limpopo. The incubator’s accelerated development programme aims to promote upcoming entrepreneurs, as well as small, medium-sized and microenterprises (SMMEs) from mining... →

INCUBATION UNDER WAY
The incubation programme started last month, with workshops targeting existing and aspiring entrepreneurs that have initiatives across the business spectrum

By: Mia Breytenbach6th October 2017
A coalition of eight civil society and community organisations, represented by the Centre for Environmental Rights (CER), which is resisting a proposed coal mine inside a declared protected environment and strategic water source area in Mpumalanga, has stepped up its resistance with further legal... →

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CONTESTED COMMODITY
Various legal proceedings are under way to oppose the proposed 15-year Yzermyn underground coal mine

By: Martin Creamer29th September 2017
Interest is building in the Section 12J of the Income Tax Act incentive structure introduced by Treasury to promote venture capital investments and stimulate growth and job creation in the South African economy, Mining Weekly Online can report. The aim of Section 12J is to encourage investment... →

By: Robyn Wilkinson29th September 2017
Chamber of Mines of South Africa (CoM) CEO Roger Baxter will consider the role that the CoM and mining companies can play in increasing investment in South Africa’s mining sector, despite current challenges, by creating an enabling business environment through the building of trust between mining... →

ROGER BAXTER Key to encouraging cohesion between mining stakeholders is a continued commitment to driving transformation in the industry at all levels

By: Henry Lazenby27th September 2017
The TSX-listed stock of beleaguered miner Tahoe Resources fell as much as 13.5% on Wednesday, after the Guatemalan Supreme Court issued a ruling clarifying the specific geographical areas that needs to be included in a fresh round of indigenous consultations; the court also denied action to force... →

By: Henry Lazenby26th September 2017
British Columbia is ‘ground zero’ for mining in Canada, as technological advances require an ever-increasing volume of metals to satisfy improving standards of living and environment-friendly technologies. This was the key message to attendees at the fourth yearly Resource Breakfast Series held... →

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BC Minister for Energy, Mines and Petroleum Michelle Mungall was formally sworn in by Lieutenant Governor Judith Guichon

By: Nica Schreuder22nd September 2017
Owing to the possible presence of hazardous methane gas during coal mining, it is common practice to monitor methane levels at operational mining sections. As such, mining monitoring systems company Monitech’s Hazardous Area Control System was introduced to coal mining fifteen years ago and it... →

By: Henry Lazenby19th September 2017
The Mining Association of Canada (MAC) has added two new components to its Towards Sustainable Mining (TSM) initiative to help curb child and forced labour in the mining supply chain, and to provide the information needed for companies to demonstrate their responsible sourcing of minerals and... →

By: Henry Lazenby18th September 2017
Fraud is a significant burden on the mining industry and is likely to cost companies an average of 5.85% of turnover every year. Therefore, catching it before it happens is often the best weapon to combat this scourge. This figure is based on 20 years of data across more than 40 sectors,... →

By: Simone Liedtke15th September 2017
Copper production in Zambia will reach just more than 800 000 t by the end of this year as the country is taking steps to regain its position as Africa’s leading copper producer, according to Zambia Chamber of Mines (CoM) initiative Mining for Zambia (MFZ). “This is a conservative estimate,... →

DRAWING DOLLARS
$12.4-billion was invested in new mining ventures in Zambia from 2000 to 2014 by just six mining companies

15th September 2017
By the first quarter of 2018, a building site in Kalumbila, in North-Western province, in Zambia, will be transformed into a $40-million manufacturing facility that will produce high-quality mill-balls for mines in Zambia, neighbouring countries and the world market, says Zambia Chamber of... →

TANGIBLE EXCITEMENT
There’s a tangible feeling of excitement in the air at Kalumbila with the coming of the ME Elecmetal plant

By: Henry Lazenby13th September 2017
Small-scale Peru-focused gold processor Inca One Gold has reported a 124% year-on-year increase in gold output for the months of July and August combined, it announced on Wednesday.
"July and August was another productive period for Chala One and our operations team is to be commended for solid... →

By: Martin Creamer7th September 2017
All South Africans need to work together to ensure that the South African mining industry is a globally competitive investment destination, said African Rainbow Minerals (ARM) executive chairperson Patrice Motsepe on Thursday, when he declared the black-controlled company’s highest-ever dividend.... →

All South Africans need to work together to ensure that the South African mining industry is a globally competitive investment destination. Video and editing: Darlene Creamer 7.9.2017

By: Sane Dhlamini7th September 2017
The National Economic Development and Labour Council (Nedlac) on Thursday rebuffed claims that it was biased when issuing Section 77 certificates to applying trade unions. Section 77 certificates protect workers who take part in socioeconomic protests. →